If you want to destroy a people, destroy the schools where the next generation is going to learn. Oppression is made of multiple actions like this. How can peace be built when occupiers destroy systematically what is needed for stability?

Google introduced new search algorithms and protocols that block access to socialist, anti-war, and progressive websites. Under the fraudulent pretext of countering fake news, Google is engaged in political censorship.

Chinese authorities have announced the destruction of thousands of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monks, nuns and lay practitioners at Serthar Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the famed Tibetan Buddhist religious encampment located in Serthar.

When the Syrian Democratic Forces liberated several towns near Manbij from ISIS control, locals began to celebrate the return to their previous lifestyle âEUR" especially the women, who are delighted they can wear colors again.

Jewish organizations can close their eyes, cover their ears, chant "I canâEUR(TM)t hear you." But if they do they'll only grow smaller, more pathetic and less relevant.In terms of relevance, justice, and Jewish continuity, they will eventually disappear

"Israel has the right to defend itself against Palestine" is like saying that if, e.g the US annexed, occupied & started building illegal settlements in Cuba, it would have the right to "defend" itself against Cubans acting in retaliation to US aggression

The hope that the Palestinians will quietly resign themselves to the settlements, happily content with the conditions imposed by the occupation, is unrealistic. What can we do if they impudently insist on resisting and striving for freedom, their natural

I left wondering how anyone with a modicum of humanity and any sense of morality could reconcile living in that environment from the spoils of Palestinian dispossession and degradation and how any nation could support the Israeli political project.

While North Korea has long struggled with dire food shortages, the United Nations now assesses its food situation as being the best in many years. But NPR has had unusual access to five North Koreans in China, who paint a dramatically different, and alarm